Dear Editor:
It's difficult to quarrel with "Any country that threatens another one's right to exist is an enemy of humanity" Will Duchon uses in the very first paragraph of his stridently anti-Israel letter, "Gadhafi was right regarding the U.N.," published October 13. Duchon, who said "Gadhafi Š seemed to have more common sense than any of those sophisticated leaders" (at the United Nations), apparently missed the part of Gadhafi's speech in which he spoke about the need to abolish Switzerland. And he appears unaware of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's repeated calls for a "world without Israel," a call backed up by an illicit nuclear arms program about which Iran's leaders have repeatedly lied.
He apparently also missed the last line of Ahmedinejad's speech: "O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace.
This was a reference to the return of the 12th imam, the Mahdi, whom Ahmedinejad believes will come only when the world is immersed in global bloodshed. Ahmedinejad has asserted his belief in the imminent return of the Mahdi is the basis for his political activities.
As has been pointed out by others, for fanatics like Ahmedinejad, the concept of mutual assured destruction is an incentive rather than a deterrent.
Duchon may think Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was audacious in focusing on this threat from Iran in his brilliant address to the United Nations, but those of us who have not had the wool pulled over our eyes recognize the importance of what Netanyahu said and pray the world will take heed before Ahmedinejad brings about the global destruction for which he prays.
Sincerely,
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Alan H. Stein
President, PRIMER-Connecticut
Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting
www.primerct.org
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